Web Development Blog

IE6 and IE7 don’t play nice with the use of url(data: in css stylesheets. It took me quite a while to narrow down on what was causing the “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items” message in IE7. Both Firefox and Chrome has no issue with a secure page I was developing. It turns […]

I recently needed to check and see if cookies were enabled for a script that I was writing for authenticating a user login. I quickly realized all the problems with this I had forgot as I don’t normally set cookies but rather normally use sessions. Problems to overcome: Can’t check for a cookie when first […]

Being a web developer I’m well aware that sites developed need to be checked over with a fine-tooth-comb for bug and potential issues. In fact there are even many times when you can check for bugs and even check the site in many different Internet browsers (such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, ect…) […]

I, like you, have run into the problem of ibrowser not working for Firefox (FF3). This is a pain as it seems like a great free image uploaded/manager for TinyMCE. The problem I kept running it is that after installing ibrowser and then testing it out, is that the icon to open up the popup […]

I’m always running into a project were I am setting up a sign up form or something and need a HTML state dropdown list for the 50 US states but also needs to include a PHP based dynamicly select/checked based on what the user submited. For example, when someone submits a form and it faild […]

Creating Google maps images to display on your website are really neat. They load really fast and can really give visitors a good idea of where something is located. I personally like to use them on contact us pages to show the location of a company. Creating them is a blast and relatively easy. First […]

I recently was working on a website containing some flash for a client and we noticed that flash files referencing external FLV documents on the server were not loading. Well at first I thought it must be something within the flash piece that was wrong. But after several tries and rewrites of the code I […]

For those of you finding IE8 to be another Microsoft beast to tame just as IE6 as been, I’ve provided a solution I found from Microsoft that will make IE8 emulate IE7 or to more accurately put it with render as if IE7. Although do be aware according to Microsoft, this makes Internet Explorer 8 […]

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to setup a PHP email form with Yahoo hosting. One of the things I’ve found with Yahoo hosting and using PHP to send emails is that there are quite a few steps you have to go through in order to get it working. But lucky you, […]